Improvement in hats



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WM. H. TOWERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,570, dated August22, 1865.

ing into the hat, and showing the under side of the rim c and the curvedor grooved ventilators A b b. Fig. 3 is a section ofthe hat, showing theinside ot' the same, the curve or groove at the ventilators b b, and theventilator at c.

Similar letters refer to the same thing.

Now, in order to make others better understand my invention, I willproceed to explain its construction.

The hat H is made of silk or of the material generally used inhat-making, and it differs from the common hat only in this: It will beperceived by examining the accompanying drawings Nos. 2 and 3 that thereis a curve or groove at the letters b b. Now, this curve or groove is,of course, concave with respect to the inner surface of the hat andconvex to the outer surface ot' the same. It is about a half inch indepth and from one to two inches iu the linear curve of the hat, andextends as far into or upward into the hat as the same presses down uponthe head. The length and depth,

however, of this groove or curve may be made to suit ones taste. Thiscurve or groove is gradual and nearly the same as the curve of the hat.It is made, of course, by being pressed upon a block shaped for thepurpose designed.

The lining of the hat is made in the usual form, except at the groovesor curves it is pressed into the same, so that it does not touch thehead, and the hat sits easier upon the head than the common hat, and itsadvantage over the common hat is most readily perceived.

Every wearer of the common article has eX- perienced the pressure andsweat thereof caused by reason 0f no sufficient ventilation. Now, thishat, with its ventilator in the front and the back of the same, as abovedescribed, (and it may be at other and different parts of the peripherythereof,) and the common ventilator at the top, relieves the head frommuch pressure and the consequences thereof by this free circulation ofthe air th rough the described ventilator. The groove does not renderthe hat ugly in appearance, but rather orna mental, and the relief itbrings will satisfy the wearer of its greatirnprovement over the commonhat.

This mode of ventilation is of no additional expense in making the same,and may be constructed not only in the silk or felt hat, butin hats andcaps of whatever form or shape or of whatever material made.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A hat ventilated through spaces formed at the back and front byirregularenlargements ot' the circle or ovoid, substantially as described.

WM. H. TOW'E RS.

Vitnesses:

J. L. NEWTON, G. L. VEsTY.

